Bruegger's FREE Coffee Day 11/10

Bruegger's Bagel's is offering up FREE coffee on November 10th. Visit their facebook page for more information and details on how your purchases can benefit The Children's Miracle Network.

NC State Fair & Food Lion Surpass Goal

Food Lion and the NC State Fair passed their goal last Thursday. The Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina received 246,779 lbs of food from fairgoers! This was an increase of almost 10,000 pounds over last year setting a new Food Lion Hunger Relief Day collection record! The food donations are equivalent to more than 200,000 meals. According to other record counts, that's equal to 27 African elephants, 20 monster trucks or a Boeing 747!


Thanks to everyone who participated by contributing to this very worthy cause! Enjoy the last day of the fair today, gates close at 11pm.

Go PINK Locally! (NC Triangle)

The following email was received from a friend showing NC Triangle Area GO PINK events...

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and we can celebrate that we have come a long way in our fight against this disease.  When Susan G. Komen for the Cure started more than 30 years ago, the five-year survival rate for breast cancer confined to the breast was just 74 percent. Today, that survival rate is 98 percent.


In spite of this success, there is still tremendous work to be done. Please join Komen NC Triangle in our promise to end breast cancer forever by participating in some exciting upcoming events. Whether you do one or do them all, you, your friends and your family can have a great time while supporting the fight against breast cancer.


I look forward to seeing you at one or all of these events!
Sincerely, 

Pam Blondin
Executive Director, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, NC Triangle Affiliate

*************************************************************************** Go PINK for the Cure at the NC State Fair October 21 - 24 From October 21 – 24, the Komen On the Go signature bright pink bus will be at the NC State Fair. This fun, hands-on experience features computer kiosks full of information on the breast cancer movement, life-saving recommendations about breast self awareness, inspirational videos, and a “graffiti wall” for sharing memories or pledging support for the cause. Help raise awareness and wear PINK on Saturday, October 23rd for thefirst ever Go Pink for the Cure day at the NC State Fair. We have a special incentive for the first 500 people wearing Pink to come by the Komen on the Go bus (near gate 9). Hope to see you there! While you’re at the fair on be sure to check out the King Action Sports Stunt Show as they perform on the largest PINK ramp park in the U.S. Survivors, the Saturday, 5pm show is dedicated to you so bring your friends, and your family out to this amazing high energy performance.
Hockey Fights Cancer: Carolina Hurricanes vs. NY Islanders November 3, 2010 | 7pm We have teamed up with the Carolina Hurricanes for Hockey Fights Cancer night on November 3. You can save 40% off your ticket purchase and watch the Carolina Hurricanes take on the NY Islanders while giving back to the fight against cancer.   Click here to purchase online. Enter special offer code: KOMEN That’s not all!  If we raise the most (or second most) through ticket sales donations, we will earn an additional $7000 or $3000 grant, courtesy of the NHL. Winning a $7,000 grant could mean 700 mammograms for women in our community. We need your help to take full advantage of this fundraising opportunity. Spread the word, and please feel free to pass this on to your friends and family.
Dine out for the Cure in the month of October Noodles and Company Monday, October 25 5pm – 8pm Give a little. Get a lot. Noodles and Company in Cary, Chapel Hill, Durham, and Raleigh will donate 25% of all sales to the Susan G. Komen, NC Triangle affiliate. Click here for more information. Fiesta for the Cure  Wednesday, October 27 Giving back never tasted so good. The On the Boarder Mexican Grill and Cantina at Plantation Point in Raleigh will be donating 10% of all food and beverage purchases on Wednesday, October 27. Click here for more information. Additional events can be found on our website.

 Go to komennctriangle.org

LOCAL EVENT: Cameron Village Clip for the Cure

LOCAL EVENT: Cameron Village Give Back.Get Back

Shop Cameron Village

Charities We Support: Chili's Donates Profits on 9/27

Monday Sept 27th Chili's will donate all profits to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Make this your weekly family dinner outing and help children in need while filling your tummy!

Stein Mart's Give & Save Charity Days

@ShopSteinMart 

  

Stein Mart’s Give & Save Charity Days event starts 9/23. Buy tickets from your fav local charity (valid at all stores) http://bit.ly/9WgrTI . This event runs September 23rd through September 26 

American Red Cross Blood Drive: Triangle Area Chapter

@NorthHillsRal 

Register to donate blood at the Midtown Farmers' Market tomorrow morning! (Saturday, 9/18) http://www.triangleredcross.org/GiveHope/GiveBlood/FindaDrive.aspx 
This particular even is local, but any city and state can schedule a future appointment by entering your zip code to find a blood drive in your area. Anyone can GIVE THE GIFT OF LIFE!

Charities We Support: Haven House Donations Accepted at The WELL

CLOTHING DRIVE TO SUPPORT HAVEN HOUSE

Keeping in step with the WELL's mission to serve young people, we're collecting clothes to donate to Haven House Services, a local agency that provides comprehensive services to Wake County youth and families. As you prepare for this back-to-school shopping season, please consider donating your gently used clothes to Haven House through our clothing drive. There is a particular need for plus size men's and women's clothing.

It is preferred that clothes are washed/dry-cleaned before dropping them off at the WELL. For more information about the clothing drive, contact Brianne Gill atBGill@wade.org or 919-856-9355.

Charities We Support: Healthy Child, Healthy World

HealthyChild.org

Healthy Child Healthy World includes: scientists creating solutions, physicians advancing the cause, activists spreading awareness, and parents implementing change to protect children's health. A diverse array of perspectives, backgrounds, and expertise makes for well-rounded and effective advice. Children are our most precious resource and creating a world where they can flourish is the best way to secure a healthy and bright future for us all. 

Read more: http://healthychild.org/about/who_we_are/#ixzz0wz2F1t6U

Healthy Child Healthy World, LUNA and Klean Kanteen share your passion for creating healthy environments for children. We want to help you raise awareness through community education. With the information provided in a Healthy Home Party Kit, you can educate and empower your family, friends, schools, and community to protect children’s health and development from common toxics. YOU can make a difference by inspiring others to take Easy Steps to create healthier living environments. Our Healthy Home Party Kit is available for a minimum tax deductible donation of ONLY $20, thanks to great sponsors such as: Klean Kanteen, LUNA, Weil Baby, Activeion and many more.

Read more: http://healthychild.org/get-involved/healthy_home_parties/#ixzz0wz3XGkwV

Los Angeles Headquarters

12300 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 320
Los Angeles, California 90025
Tel: 310.820.2030
Fax: 310.820.2070

Event: Shayne & Rebekah Miel Friends with Benefits Concert

Subject:     [belviderepark]  
Date:     Thu, 20 May 2010 14:27:18 EDT
 
Hello All!

I would like to tell you all about a local musician friend of mine, Shayne . He is in a local band called Future Kings of Nowhere. He
is an amazing writer & musician.  Last year Shayne was diagnosed with cancer.   He got married in the hospital to the love of his life,
Rebekah.   They were living in NY at the time but have moved back to NC to be near family and friends.  Their lives have been a roller coaster ever since. I admire them for their strength and courage.  They give me HOPE FOR A CURE!

This is Shayne's Blog.

http://thismachinekillscancer.tumblr.com/

Family and Friends are having a benefit for Shayne....

Triangle Brewing Company (918 Pearl St.) on June 19 for a benefit festival including - get this - SEVENTEEN local music acts on two
stages, magic, food and drink sales, a silent auction, and more! A compilation of FKoN covers by local musicians will be available for
sale. Proceeds will benefit Shayne and Rebekah Miel as well as help launch Friends With Benefits!

SCHEDULE:

12:30 p.m. Catie Yerkes
1:00 p.m. Tea and Tempest
1:30 p.m. The Mercators
2:00 p.m. The Tourist
2:30 p.m. Mike Casey Magic
3:00 p.m. Beloved Binge
3:30 p.m. Wigg Report
4:00 p.m. Reese McHenry
4:30 p.m. Jason Kutchma
5:00 p.m. Tender Fruit
5:30 p.m. The Pneurotics
7:00 p.m. Mike Casey Magic
7:30 p.m. The Narcoleptics
8:00 p.m. Charles Latham
8:30 p.m. Bowerbirds
9:15 p.m. Silent Auction Winners
9:30 p.m. Schooner
10:00 p.m. Grey Young
10:30 p.m. Free Electric State
11:00 p.m. Hammer No More the Fingers

Come out and support a great cause and enjoy some great local music.

Charity: Help fight Childhood Cancer

Find a Ritas Ice near you!

Charity: Adeja Johnson Foundation

Charity always starts at home and this one is close enough to us to consider it being in our own backyard. Please read Adeja's story and consider donating to help fund The Adeja Johnson Foundation...

Purpose

To help financially,mentally,and emotionally in the community and beyond. To establish an awareness in the community of Bone Marrow Transplant, Cord Blood Transplants and other options to help get rid of diseases that as of right now do not have a cure recorded. To visit and volunteer in nursing homes, hospital, and other care facilities as needed. To help families in need by assisting with fund raisers, and also monterary donations from foundation. Also to pray with families before,during, and after transplants.

  

Goals

• To set up workshops in the community to educate on Sickle Cell Anemia, HIV, and other diseases.
• To speak with community leaders to help set-up programs for families seeking help.
• To assist in community programs that promote healthy living.
• To set up special programs in churches to promote healthy living also.

  

Our foundation is currently in the beginning stages and we need your help to our non-profit moving in the right direction. We are seeking sponsors for upcoming events.

Charity: Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest)

Help fight childhood hunger here in North Carolina along with Lowes Foods Community Support. They are currently sponsoring the Bag Childhood Hunger campaign in conjunction with Feeding America.org.

Please show your support to both these worthy charitable causes, then leave a comment to be entered to win a prize from us compliments of Lowes Foods!

Charity: Kids Food Basket

Kids Food Basket in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Mission: Attacking childhood hunger in Grand Rapids.

We exist to ensure that children in our community don't go to bed hungry.

Childhood hunger hurts. It denies dignity, lessens human energy, erodes community stability and impairs the potential of children to achieve. To break this cycle of hunger, Kids' Food Basket of Grand Rapids is committed to providing healthy, tasty, efficient and cost effective evening meal sack suppers to children who are food insecure.

As a community based volunteer organization, our volunteers, ages 5 to 95, come from all walks of life to give their time, talent and treasure to end hunger among our children. We seek to provide life sustaining meals to those in need and to silence the pain that hunger brings.

What We Are

Kids' Food Basket is a hunger relief agency in Grand Rapids, Michigan, that provides food insecure children an evening meal each weekday at the end of the school day. The children we serve attend schools where 80% or above of students live at or below the poverty level.

Their Snack Sack Project info is a great way to help stop childhood hunger. We recommend and support donations to this effort!

PAWS: My Boneyard at Harris Teeter

Saw this posting on Savvy Dollar by member krtvstar about a new program at Harris Teeter called My Boneyard where you can recycle your old electronic devices. Please view the postings here from the Savvy Dollar forum post and register to add your own input on the program.

MyBoneYard® was created to help people like you recycle electronic devices such as cell phones and laptops in a smart, responsible and eco-friendly way. Scrapster^TM our mascot ensures the Simple, Safe and Smart way to recycle your old electronics.

Scrapster^TM

MyBoneYard® brings together leading electronics product asset recovery and recycling capabilities so you can be assured that your personal information will be permanently deleted and your electronic products will be handled in the most ecologically friendly manner.

Whether you're getting rid of an old cell phone or computer, by recycling with MyBoneYard®.com you'll find we provide:

• • A safe and best-in-class environmental recycling solution exceeding all state legislative requirements.
• • Guaranteed content removal of all personal information. 
• • World-class customer service and project management.
• • An eco-friendly option to simply throwing your electronics in the trash.

The Women's Center of Wake County

This article was in the April 29th and was posted on a Savvy Dollar forum by RLP2451. We now have an update thanks to the overwhelming response! The center can no longer accept food donations because of so many generous people! They ask that if you still wish to donate that you hold off for a while and contact them later; or you could donate toiletries which they can always use. I'm posting the original article here so you can learn more about how they serve our community.

We need food, Women's Center says

RALEIGH -- The Women's Center of Wake County, which serves homeless and low-income women and children, is in desperate need of food, with just one day's worth of food on hand.

The center's freezer is bare except for a bag of frozen blueberries, said Jean Williams, executive director of the center, which is on Hargett Street in downtown Raleigh.

Resources have been depleted, Williams said, because the center has been overrun by people who need its services. Plus, organizations that supply the center, such as the Food Bank of Eastern North Carolina, are low on supplies, too.

Though some think the economy is rebounding, Williams said her organization is seeing an increase in demand for food and services. And that demand is not from those who are chronically homeless or jobless.

"It's people who never thought they'd have to come to us for food," she said.

In 2009, the center served 832 households, including 539 children.

The center is asking Raleigh residents to pick up a few extra items on their next grocery store trip and drop them off at the Women's Center, 128 E. Hargett St., Suite 10.

"Every little bit helps," Williams said.

Deliveries are accepted Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. If you need to have your items picked up, please call the center at 829-3711 to make arrangements.

Disaster Relief: Haiti, July 17 - 24

Twitter friend in my head, Stuart MacDonald has the opportunity to go and lend a hand in Haiti and needs our help! For eight days July 17th - 24th, he and the Victory World Church of Atlanta will be there to help out a group who has been there since the beginning. www.ahomeinhaiti.org and sponsor Shaun King are the folks who have been active and on the ground since the the earthquake hit.

Now for the donation part, his trip is $1,200 and is to include his  food, lodging,transportation, flights and security) This is by far not a go over on your own and gawk and the disaster left behind. But he needs help financing the trip and we a FINDaBB plan to make a donation. Keep in mind that this blog is currently not making any money due to it being new and not having a lot of readership. But please if you do get a chance to see this, visit his blog http://www.stuartbmcdonald.com/donate/ for info on him and about this trip. Donations are needed by JULY 7th. I know he will appreciate ANY AMOUNT you can send through paypal. Also, if you'd like to go, contact him. I can't go because of a couple of reasons: 1. I'd be crying too much and 2. I'd try to bring home every one of those little orphans!

PLEASE GIVE TO THIS RELIEF EFFORT
ANY AMOUNT YOU CAN GIVE WILL
BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!